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TIL Brainstorming has been shown to produce fewer and lower quality ideas than when people work alone.

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wRWY TIL NASA has a long standing tradition to wake up astronauts with a specially selected track of music each day, usually picked by friends or family members, called “Wake Up Calls”
ADRPw TIL "Jump Jim Crow" is a song & dance from 1828 that was done in blackface by white minstrel performer Thomas Dartmouth (T. D.) "Daddy" Rice. The term Jim Crow had become a pejorative term for African Americans by 1838 and from this the laws of racial segregation became known as Jim Crow laws
aG79 TIL that the majority of the Las Vegas Strip is not in Las Vegas but just outside city limits in Paradise, NV
GVbG TIL A hospital in Nanjing introduced an automatic sperm extractor for men. It has a massage pipe at the front with adjustable height, speed, frequency, amplitude and temperature. It also has a screen to display “artistic” movies. (Text and video)
vov7 TIL in 1998, Wu Tang Clan member Ol’ Dirty Bastard witnessed a car crash from the window of his Brooklyn recording studio. He and a friend coordinated onlookers and lifted one of the cars to rescue a four year old girl, whom ODB visited in hospital under a fake name